“DOURO VALLEY” ROUTE 145
Rates (Póvoa de Varzim) and decorates the voussoirs of the south crevice. While most corbels show motifs with a geometric flavour, two of them stand out by the representation of somewhat stylised human figures; on a third one we find the theme of the exhibitionist, a squatting male figure that is depicted naked and with its right hand over its genitals, while the left hand is touching its face. We also find this scheme in Tarouquela (Cinfães)
(p. 109). On the nave’s foundations, on the north side, we see the representation of a bird (a pelican?) and, on the opposite side, we see a new approach to the theme of the exhibitionist. It is a stylised representation of a man who is holding his beard with both hands, which reminds us of a typology that is found in several Spanish Romanesque buildings or the figure on the corbel that supports the tympanum of the main portal of the Monastery of Paço de Sousa (Penafiel) (p. 90).